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Above: Different views
of the same Huon pine form illustrate how much a möbius can visually move and change.
Left: An easy way to make a möbius is to take a strip of paper and give one end a half twist, joining the ends together with tape.
Below: For smaller scale work, particularly in hard and dense timbers – welcome to the world of rasps and files.
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What is a möbius?
Historically, the möbius is attributed to German mathematicians Johann Benedict Listing and August Ferdinand Möbius in 1858. However, it appears in art as far back as 200AD in Roman mosaics.
Put simply, a möbius is a surface with only one side (despite being three-dimensional) and one border perimeter. An easy way to make a möbius is to take a strip of paper and give one end a half twist, joining the ends together with tape.
Design and play
From this point you can search out many possible variations in the
or many years now I’ve
experimented with the möbius form. There is something about its unusual nature, its playful, twisting, disappearing and reappearing lines that I find alluring. During my time as a jeweller I would forge silver and gold into expressive möbius forms, sometimes as pendants, bangles or the occasional ring.
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